There are several definitions of a mentor, but in higher education the term typically refers to a relationship between a more professionally advanced faculty member and one who is relatively new to the institution, profession, and/or field. A mentor is more than a colleague, both because of the difference in institutional status, and also because the mentor agrees to serve as a guide, role-model, and/or coach for the mentee.
A Friend who provides emotional support, helps with decision making, offers guidance for personal issues such as relocation and familial issues, and offers defense against criticism. Mentors and mentees also socialized together outside of the department/ university.
A Career Guide who collaborates in research and/or publications, helps the mentee to network with other professionals and promotes his or her visibility within professional networks. Mentors also offered advice about research, grant proposals, funding, and publishing.
An Information Source who shares knowledge about university and departmental policies and procedures, including those for promotion and tenure (both formal and informal), and offers advice about committee work and teaching culture/practices.
An Intellectual Guide who offers intellectual guidance and provides feedback and constructive criticism on the mentee's scholarly work and teaching.
From Sands, R.G., Parson, L.A., & Duane, J. (1991). Faculty Mentoring Faculty in a Public University. The Journal of Higher Education, 62, (2) pp. 174-193.
In short, there are no hard and fast rules about what constitutes a mentoring relationship among faculty. Characteristics of each relationship depend on myriad factors including departmental culture, discipline, and individual personalities. It is important that both parties be clear about the expectations and boundaries of the relationship and feel comfortable to discuss those expectations without fear of repercussion.
Universities and departments differ in the way mentoring relationships are set up and the extent to which they are required or optional. Typically, a tenured faculty member (associate or full professor) will mentor an incoming, tenure-track assistant professor.
However, in fields where there is a paucity of women faculty, such as in some sciences, one can often find more experienced women assistant professors mentoring newer assistant professors, as some believe women's mentorship in the sciences to be an important resource.
Many have also advocated for mentoring relationships among faculty who are cultural and ethnic minorities. Often, the expectations for minority faculty members are unreasonable (e.g. they're expected to serve as advocates for minority students, conduct above-average research, be a spokesperson for and researcher of diversity issues whether or not it's their field of expertise). In order to retain, and more importantly, adequately support ethnically minority faculty, faculty mentors need to be aware of these additional pressures.
Finally, many departments have formal (required) or informal mentoring practices between faculty and graduate students.
Learn more about CTE's Near Peer Mentoring Exchange here. This program is a voluntary exchange for new full time faculty members, who participate in mentoring groups with experienced faculty across the University. The experienced faculty are those who have succeeded at the next steps for which incoming faculty are preparing, such as third year review.
Professionals in every field can usually identify a handful of people whose guidance was instrumental to their professional development and success. Mentors, "trusted counselors or guides" (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary), are essential in the university setting, which focuses on the professional development of graduate students as teachers. The above site from the University of Georgia's Center for Teaching and Learning gives resources detailing TA and faculty mentor relationships.
Where Does the TA Fit In?
This essay, written by a TA at Penn, presents the need for faculty mentoring of TAs from a TA's perspective.
More often, however, informal mentoring relationships are formed internally to the department based on common interests and faculty willingness. In these cases, the boundary between friend and mentor might be fuzzy, and it is the responsibility of both parties to make clear from the start what will be the expectations of the relationship.
For a more personalized take on the mentoring relationship, see Frank Midler's January 21, 2005 Chronicle article: Should a Mentor Be a Friend?
In 2000, the American Association of Higher Education's (AAHE) Forum on Faculty Roles and Rewards conducted a study entitled, Heeding New Voices. The study consisted of over 350 interviews of new faculty and graduate students in order to determine what will be needed to support the next generation of scholars, teachers, and researchers in the academy. The study resulted in a 60 page document, written by Eugene Rice, Mary Deane Sorcinelli, and Anne Austin, as well as a brief pamphlet outlining ten principles of good practice, by Mary Deane Sorcinelli.
Mentoring New Faculty: Advice to Department Chairs by Dr. Marjorie Olmstead, University of Washington. This clear and concise article is geared specifically to department chairs, as it offers suggestions about conveying expectations and criteria for promotion, facilitating the acquisition of resources, and giving feedback on performance to new junior faculty. Since Dr. Olmstead's background is in physics and chemistry, some of her advice speaks directly to specific issues in science departments. However the majority of guidelines she offers are general enough for any department. Direct and to the point, this is a great article to have on hand for quick reference.
MentorNet "is the award-winning nonprofit e-mentoring network that addresses the retention and success of those in engineering, science and mathematics, particularly, but not exclusively, women. Founded in 1997, MentorNet provides highly motivated protégés from many of the world's top colleges and universities with positive, one-on-one, email-based mentoring relationships with mentors from industry and academia. In addition, the MentorNet Community provides opportunities to connect with others from around the world who are interested in diversifying engineering and science."


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Q: How to identify the list of pipelines attached with a variable group in AzureDevops Looking for 2 solutions

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*How to identify the list of pipelines attached with a variable group in AzureDevops
say from the variable group name, i want to understand what are the pipelines (both build and
release) pipelines refering the values from that VG.

*How to create a secrete variable in the VG using the az command, while creating the VG itself
az pipelines variable-group create  --name <variable_group_name} --variables myvalue=$myvalue
here its creating normal variable, but I want to create secrete variable in the same coomand above while creating the VG itself.
Adding the Details as mentioned in the comments
So here the problem i am facing is
in my curret bash script, we are using the below commands to create variable group and  variable together.
az pipelines variable-group create --project=myproject --name $variable_group_name --authorize true --variables mynKey=$my_key

So if I want to split this to commands, not sure how I can obtain the group id for the created variable group.
az pipelines variable-group create  --project=$projectname --name $variable_group_name --authorize true

az pipelines variable-group variable create --group-id <?????> --name myKey --project=$projectname --secret  true --value $my_key

A:
i want to understand what are the pipelines (both build and release) pipelines refering the values from that VG.

We could only list the pipelines which refering variable group based on check the pipeline one by one with the REST API Definitions - Get. But we could not check the pipeline list based on the variable group.
Details:

*

*Use the RETS API Definitions - List to list all the pipelines, then we could get all the definitionIds.

*Loop use the REST API Definitions - Get to get the details info about the pipeline.

How to create a secrete variable in the VG using the az command, while
creating the VG itself

You could use the az command az pipelines variable-group create to create a blank variable group at first.
Then use the another az command az pipelines variable-group variable create to add the variable with the option --secret {false, true}:
az pipelines variable-group variable create --group-id
                                            --name
                                            [--org]
                                            [--project]
                                            [--secret {false, true}]
                                            [--subscription]
                                            [--value]

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Бура́ево () — село в Республике Башкортостан, административный центр Бураевского района и Бураевского сельсовета.

Географическое положение
Расположено в 150 км северо-западнее Уфы, в бассейне реки Быстрый Танып (приток Белой). Ближайшая железнодорожная станция расположена в городе Янауле (75 км севернее).

История
Это село образовано в 1610 году.

Наименование села происходит от отца основателя.

В 1795 году в селе проживало 713 человек, а в 1865 году — 2 682 человека. Население села занимались земледелием, скотоводством и пчеловодством. В селе находилось волостное правление, было 4 мечети, 5 училищ, 4 мельницы, 40 лавок; проводились ярмарки.

В 1906 году в Бураево были учтены 6 мечетей, 4 медресе, русско-башкирская школа, 3 водяные мельницы, галантерейная, мануфактурная и 20 бакалейных лавок, хлебозапасный магазин, библиотека-читальня, фельдшерский пункт, почтово-телеграфное отделение.

Весной 1918 года вспыхнуло Бураевское восстание. В середине марта 1918 года жители села Бураева арестовали членов Бураевского волостного совета и провозгласили образование Бураевского башкирского кантонства. Восставшими был образован орган самоуправления — Бураевский башкирский национальный совет, а также сформирован вооружённый отряд для борьбы против большевиков. В соседние волости участниками восстания были разосланы агитаторы с призывом о поддержке. 18 апреля 1918 года в Бураевский башкирский национальный совет (шуро) провозгласил территорию своей и семи соседних волостей Бураевским башкирским автономным районом, входящим в состав Башкурдистана на правах 10-го Бураевского кантона.

Экономика
В селе расположен молочный завод компании ООО «Молочное дело — Бураево», которое закрылось.

Население

 Национальный состав
Большинство — башкиры (85 %).
Остальные — русские, татары, удмурты (15 %).

По переписи 1989 года преобладали татары, однако в 2002 году были переписаны башкирами.

Население села разговаривает на татарском языке.

Радио
 100,8 МГц — Радио Юлдаш
 101.2 МГц — Радио Бураево;
 103,4 МГц — Радио России / ГТРК Башкортостан;
 107,7 МГц — Спутник ФМ.

Известные уроженцы
 Ахмеров, Касим Закирович (1900—1969) — башкирский языковед, доктор филологических наук (1963), профессор (1965).
 Владимир Николаевич Лобов (р. 1935) — советский военачальник, генерал армии
 Майский, Сахип Нурлугаянович — командир батальона 674-го стрелкового полка 150-й стрелковой дивизии 13-й армии, капитан, один из первых уроженцев Башкирии, удостоенных высшей степени отличия СССР — звания Герой Советского Союза.
 Муслим Марат (наст. имя — Минимулла Набиуллович Муслимов) (1909—1975) — башкирский поэт, член Союза писателей Башкирской АССР (1935).
 Султанов, Айрат Хамитович (род. 28 января 1962 года) — артист Туймазинского государственного татарского драматического театра, народный артист РБ (2012).
 Лалаева Эндира Раисовна (род. 28 мая 1970 года) - певец и композитор.

Примечания

Ссылки

 Сельское поселение Бураевский сельсовет
 Бураево на портале «Генеалогия и Архивы»

Населённые пункты Бураевского района
Районные центры Башкортостана

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Domel () also spelled as Domail is a main town in Domel tehsil of Bannu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is also union council of Bannu District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Domel is inhabited mostly by Ahmadzai Wazir tribe of Pashtuns.

See also
 Domel Tehsil
 Bannu District

References

Union councils of Bannu District
Populated places in Bannu District


This trip is perfect for active travelers wanting to explore the diverse natural beauty of Iceland away from the Ring Road.
Your guide will pick you up at your hotel in Reykjavik and drive you to the cluster of famous sights known as the Golden Circle.
You'll trek through Thingvellir National Park where the European and North American tectonic plates are splitting apart at Earth's surface, walk among the famous geysers in the Haukadalur Valley, and stare in amazement at the thunderous Gullfoss waterfall. Enjoy a lunch of traditional lamb stew at a restaurant by the falls.
Continue to the Solheimajokull glacier for a guided 2-hour trek. Following a safety briefing and introduction to the equipment, you'll walk across the complex surface of the glacier and learn all about the unique environment.
Afterwards you'll finish the drive to Thorsmork, settle into your mountain hut and look for the Northern Lights.
After breakfast you'll embark on a trek between the glacier-topped volcanoes Eyjafjallajokull and Myrdalsjokull.
The Fimmvorduhals Trek is considered one of the most scenic hikes in Iceland, climbing 1000m through a landscape of dramatic ravines, craters, glaciers and streams. Your guide will explain how the area was impacted by the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajokull.
Return to your hut in Thorsmork to look for the Northern Lights.
The day's activities will depend on weather.
One option is to hike Stakkholtsgja, a 2km ravine as deep as 100m and run through with streams and waterfalls.
Another is to trek to the summit of Mt. Rettarfell and check out the "fairy church", a beautiful cave set in a cliff.
You may also climb Mt. Valahnukur, a prominent peak with rewarding views of Iceland in every direction.
In the evening you'll return to Thorsmork for the last night in your familiar hut.
In the morning you'll leave Thorsmork and stop by the Gigjokull glacier, a 7.5km tongue of the Eyjafjallajokull glacier.
You'll then continue to the south coast and visit the famous Seljalandsfoss waterfall. The waterfall drops 60m into a surprisingly still pool, and you can even walk behind it!
Afterwards you'll finish the drive to Reykjavik, arriving around 14:00 at your hotel.
You will stay at a mountain hut in Basar. The 2-floor hut features a kitchen, mud room, sitting room, and bedrooms with bunk beds. You'll get your water from a nearby stream, and enjoy the beauty of the Northern Lights at night without light pollution from cities. Lavatories are located in a small outhouse nearby.
Iceland is a small but diverse island nation straddling the Arctic Circle. With just over 330,000 inhabitant, Iceland has a smaller population than most European cities. Almost two-thirds of the population live in and around Reykjavik, leaving the rest of the country very sparsely populated.
The Golden Circle is the name for a group of popular tourist destinations within a day's drive of Reykjavik. They include Thingvellir National Park, where you can see the edges of both the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates; the enormous tiered waterfall Gulfoss; and the geysers Strokkur and Geysir. Strokkur erupts a 25 m tall plume of water every 5-8 minutes!
Thorsmork is a popular hiking destination in Iceland's interior. Despite being located between two glaciers, Thorsmork is often warmer and greener than the rest of Iceland. The valley provides access to a wide range of hikes, waterfalls, rivers and glaciers.
Your guide will pick you up at your hotel in Reykjavik. They will be in touch before the trip to finalise details.
You will be dropped off at your hotel in Reykjavik. Your host will be in touch before the trip to finalise details.
Iceland's international airport is located in Keflavik, about 45 minutes west of Reykjavik. Direct flights between mainland Europe and Iceland are frequent throughout the year. Taxis, shuttles and buses are available to take you between the airport and Raykjavik.
This trip is suitable for all travellers with a good level of fitness.
This trip is guaranteed to run, max groups size is 10.
Yes, participants need to be 15+ to take part.
Despite the country's name, winters in Iceland are surprisingly temperate courtesy of the warm North Atlantic and Gulf Stream currents. Temperatures in Reykjavik and along the coasts and lowlands average -3 to 3 °C most of the winter. Weather conditions can be very changeable, though, so prepare to for all conditions every day, including wind, rain, and maybe even snow. Daylight hours are limited, with the sun remaining above the horizon for just 4 to 7 hours each day. The beautiful Northern Lights often fill the night sky.
Icelandic food is largely based on seafood, lamb and dairy, though locally produced vegetable are becoming more common. Favorite dishes include roasted lamb, salmon fillets, skyr (yogurt), blueberries, bread and pastries, and the very popular hot dog. Your guide will cook for you; likely dinners include a warming stew or barbecued lamb.
In Iceland there's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing! Bring plenty of warm and waterproof layers, sturdy and warm hiking shoes, gloves, hat, sunglasses, and a small rucksack for carrying layers and personal items. You will need a sleeping bag for the hut. Your host can arrange rental of hiking boots, hiking poles and a sleeping bag.


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Q: C++ friend function does not work (with multiple header and source files) I have tried to find a solution in the internet,but I have always found examples where the classes, main function,etc are written in one file, not separated. Maybe it would be enough,but I am new in C++ and I guess my problem is different,because I use different header and source files for each classes and a different source file for main().So, the problem is: I have tried to make printBoxMeretek(Box) function in Box2 class to be the friend function of Box class. It doesn't work and I don't know why. When I make the whole Box2 class to be friend of Box class, everything is ok. What should I do, if I want only printBoxMeretek(Box) function to be friend,not the whole Box2 class?Anyway,the error message says that the problem is that boxSzelesseg and boxMagassag variables in Box class are private. But as I know a friend function should be able to handle private variables.Here are the contents of my test files:Box.h
#ifndef BOX_H
#define BOX_H

class Box
{
    //friend function from Box2 [can be written anywhere: in private, in public,etc section] =>It does NOT work...why???
    friend void printBoxMeretek(Box);

    //make the whole Box2 class friend =>It works well.
//    friend class Box2;

    public:
};

#endif // BOX_H

Box2.h
#ifndef BOX2_H
#define BOX2_H

#include <iostream>
#include <Box.h>

class Box2
{
    public:
        void printBoxMeretek(Box)
        { }
};

#endif // BOX2_H

Thank you for your help.

A: friend void printBoxMeretek(Box);

This declares a free function being friend of Box. You want a member function being friend, so you should declare a such:
class Box2;
class Box
{
    friend void Box2::printBoxMeretek(Box);
};

Now problem is, you need the complete class declaration available for, so:
class Box;
class Box2;
{
public:
    void printBoxMeretek(Box);
};

class Box
{
    friend void Box2::printBoxMeretek(Box);
};

It does not matter if you have this in the same header or within two of them – the problem remains (i. e. you need to include Box2.h from Box.h).
Side note (thanks, Martin, for clarification): Even though a function is declared using Box class, the complete definition of the class only needs to be available when you either define or call the function, so this works fine as it is. You just have to make sure to include both headers wherever you do one of these (or just always Box.h, which comes with Box2.h implicitly).
You might have preferred a reference, though. Your box classes do not look to me as if you really intended to copy them on each call to the print function:
void Box2::printBoxMeretek(Box const& b);

A:
   //friend function from Box2 [...]
   friend void printBoxMeretek(Box);

Because that is not the function from Box2.  Instead it is the declaration of a freestanding function in the global namespace ::printBoxMeretek.
Instead what you need is:
    friend void Box2::printBoxMeretek(Box);

... but to make that work, you will need to define Box2 first - so #include "Box2.h" at the top of Box.h.
The final wrinkle, is that Box2.h can't include Box.h (otherwise you have a circular include).  Fortunately you don't need to.  Instead of #include "Box.h", just use class Box; which declares the class (so you can use it as a function argument), but doesn't define it (so you can't create variables of type Box).
So, Box2.h:
class Box;

class Box2 {
public:
    void PrintBox(Box b);
};

Note that I have elided include guards.  You want those.
Box.h:
#include "Box2.h"
class Box {
    int v;
public:
    Box(int v);
    friend void Box2::PrintBox(Box b);

};

Box.cpp
#include "Box.h"
Box::Box(int v) : v(v) {}

Box2.cpp
#include "Box2.h" // Always put "our" header first to check it includes everything.
#include "Box"    // Needed to define member function
#include <iostream>

Box2::PrintBox(Box b) {
    std::cout << b.v << std::endl;
}

main.cpp
#include "Box.h"
int main() {
    Box b(42);
    Box2 b2;
    b2.PrintBox(b);
    return 0;
}


Fitness testing is a way of gaining information about the health-related and skill related components of an athletes fitness. Testing can take place in a number of environments, with laboratory testing being the most accurate, however, there is still a large range of tests that can be carried out, away from a lab, which provides a lot of useful information.
Specificity: Fitness tests must assess an individuals fitness for the activity or sport in question. For example, there is little point in using a running endurance test to assess an athletes improvement in cycling endurance.
Validity: Fitness tests must measure the component of fitness that they are supposed to. For example, is your sit and reach test measuring solely the flexibility of the hamstrings or are there other factors involved?
Reliability: A reliable test produces the same results if repeated. For example, an assessor trained in skin-fold measurements will produce the same result, when the same area is re-tested shortly after.
Fitness tests are subject to a large number of internal and external variables which may affect the outcome of the test. When performing a repeat test, it is important to try to limit as many variables as possible by ensuring the conditions/circumstances are exactly the same as during the previous test.


Is Product Testing USA a Scam? My Review Uncovers The Truth About It!
Companies spend a lot of money to promote their products via the likes of Amazon and eBay & reviews play an important role in a visitor's decision making process when it comes to making a purchase. This is why product testers and reviewers are becoming increasingly important. Product Testing USA is a new review based platform which invites products testers to have a say on various offers.
But how does this program work and does it really pay back? My followers seem to be pretty curious about it all as well as being excited to try the website, so to make things easier I've decided to write a comprehensive Product Testing USA review.
Here you'll see the various important things to consider about this seemingly promising platform. And if you're wondering is Product Testing USA a scam or legit site then you'll figure it out after I show you some interesting and unknown facts about this popular new website.
What Exactly Is Product Testing USA?
Product Testing USA is based on a simple concept. The platform invites you to join the program. You'll be testing and reviewing different products & the main idea is that you'll receive each of the products you review for free.
In addition to the free products, the website also allegedly offers various promotional rewards which include cash vouchers and gift cards. Seems good enough, as long as we don't have to pay anything in the form of membership or subscription fees!
I found it strange – I mean why would a website limit the number of reviewers or product testers? It is quite strange to know that the platform actually only allows a certain selected visitor to review each product. Well I guess it makes sense because the reviewers must have some idea about the product. But they are literally picking just one reviewer per product.
This is something beyond logic! On one hand they are inviting new testers and on the other hand, they have imposed restrictions on the visitors. What exactly is the motive of this platform?
I've come to the conclusion that this website is actually willing to encourage more and more visitors to sign up. Once the visitors sign up, they reveal their policy that you can't review more than one product in a day and that you can only review one product if the website picks you as a tester of a particular product.
Let me first show you how this website works so that it will become easier to know if it is really what it appears to be.
How Does Product Testing USA Work?
When you select a product to review, you're asked to hit the Sign Up icon which takes you to the next page. The sign up process is simple but you need to make sure that you uncheck the condition stated under the sign up icon. If you leave it as checked and proceed further, you'll allow the platform to send you emails, contact you via your contact details and share with you the latest promotions. If you actually love to receive these things then there is no problem with selecting the option but otherwise it will get pretty annoying.
After signing up, you are confronted with a questionnaire which you have to fill in. The questionnaire actually deals with the promotion of various other products. This is a trick to drag the visitor deeper inside. They just want you to sign up for more and more products.
This is the third step but just on paper. Since I only tried this platform for the purpose of review, I requested some information from others who had tried this platform for over a month. They told me that the second step is actually a trap. While dealing with the questionnaire you get the impression that the website is trying to judge your interests and knowledge about particular products. The reality is, they are just promoting the products and they never really require testers or reviewers. As far as receiving a product is concerned, you apparently never actually receive any products. They just trick you in believing that one day you'll get your chance. Based on what the people I spoke to said it seems like that "one day" might have been numbered after Doom's Day!
Why Do They Limit Reviews?
One important thing I realized about Product Testing USA is that the prime focus is to collect the visitor's information. This website actually shares your contact information to help the promotion of their partner's products. After signing up, you'll keep receiving spam emails, occasional phone calls even text messages. Whilst it doesn't break into your computer it still tricks you to extract your information. You may share that information during the sign up process or registering for any other offer. People have complained a lot about this platform for sending repetitive spam emails, phone calls, and texts.
My Verdict – Is Product Testing USA a Scam?
On the basis of the fact that I just tried this website for a couple of days for the purpose of this review I can't personally conclude if they do actually send out products as claimed, but I've seen a lot of Product Testing USA scam rumours that are mainly based on this single argument that they never send any products.
One thing I will say though is that I am convinced that it is not 100% legitimate. The website's content is misleading and they never tell you about the review limitation until after you sign up. So my advice is to stay protected & don't waste your time waiting for your turn to review something when you might actually never even get sent a product.
Instead of fooling around with a site like Product Testing USA which appears to just be a time-waster why not take a look into a legitimate & proven program instead like Wealthy Affiliate for example? Through a program like that you'll learn exactly how to properly make money online & the best part is that it's entirely free to join.
So overall I am going to make the decision not to recommend Product Testing USA because in my opinion it doesn't really seem worthy of your time & could potentially just a be a scam designed to gather personal data.
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Las Gemelas es una telenovela producida por Ernesto Alonso para Telesistema Mexicano (hoy Televisa) en 1972.

Protagonizada por Maricruz Olivier (en un doble papel de protagonista y antagonista) y Guillermo Murray. Contó con las actuaciones estelares de Andrés García y Norma Herrera.

La historia original fue escrita por Amparo Garrido siendo su primera y única telenovela en la que trabajó como escritora. Cabe mencionar que esta producción es la tercera versión de la telenovela homónima de 1961, también producido por Ernesto Alonso.

Argumento
Carlos es un pintor que se divide entre dos mujeres, muy parecidas: Paula y Amelia. Al final, él descubre que son la misma persona pero con un comportamiento diferente.

Elenco

 Maricruz Olivier - Paula Beltrán / Amelia Beltrán
 Guillermo Murray - Carlos
 Norma Herrera - Susana
 Andrés García - Leonardo
 Nelly Meden - Lidia
 Blanca Torres - Doña Marina Beltrán
 Sergio Jiménez
 Miguel Manzano
 José Martí - Felipe
 Jorge Vargas - Alberto
 Rafael Banquells - Don Raúl Beltrán
 Raquel Olmedo - Laura
 Susana Dosamantes
 Martha Zavaleta - Conchita Ojeda
 Otto Sirgo - Mario
 Aurora Cortés - Nana Goya
 Talina Fernández
 Lourdes Canale
 Héctor Suárez
 Héctor Flores
 Enrique Álvarez Félix - Arturo
 Karla - Claire

Versiones

Las gemelas (1961). Producida por Ernesto Alonso y protagonizada por Beatriz Aguirre y Rafael Bertrand.
Puente de amor (1969). Producida por Ernesto Alonso y protagonizada por Angélica María y Miguel Manzano.

Enlaces externos
 Las Gemelas II en Alma-latina.net

Telenovelas de México
Telenovelas de 1972


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Former Alamance Co. man paroled after serving half of life sentence for 1980 murder and robbery
A former Alamance County man who was convicted of first-degree murder and robbery at a car wash in Burlington in July 1980, when he was 19, has been granted parole.
Larry Junious Booker, 60, black male, will be paroled after serving 40 years of his life sentence, the North Carolina Parole Commission announced Tuesday. Then 18, Booker had graduated from high school and had enlisted in the U.S. Army when he was taken into police custody in July 1980 in connection with an armed robbery and murder at what is described in court documents as a "Robo car wash" in Burlington. The case background lists the victim's name as Louis Henry Shoe.
Booker's first trial ended in a mistrial, according to the case background. He was convicted of first-degree murder and armed robbery at his second trial in Alamance County, held in January 1981 and presided over by D. Marsh McLelland, who served as an Alamance County district court judge from 1968 to 1972 and as an Alamance County superior court judge from 1972 until his retirement in 1986.
At the outset of his second trial in Alamance County, Booker asserted that "the jury in the first trial had impliedly acquitted him," by virtue of the deadlock, and that the double jeopardy provisions in the U.S. and N.C. Constitutions prohibited him from being retried for the crimes.
McLelland rejected both arguments; and Booker was sentenced to life in prison.
At the time of Booker's conviction, a life sentence was interpreted to be 80 years (about the average life expectancy), though most defendants became eligible after serving 20 years of that term, based on an analysis that the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill wrote in May 1982, on behalf of then-Gov. Jim Hunt's crime commission and the U.S. Institute of Justice.
Booker appealed his conviction based on his claim that he had been coerced into confessing to the crimes and had been held in Burlington police custody 5½ hours and interrogated for 2 ½ hours, both of which he contended had been unduly long amounts of time, the case background states.
Retired former state legislator Dan Ingle – a career law officer who went on to represent Alamance County in the state house and serve as an Alamance County commissioner – was one of two detectives with the Burlington police department who interrogated Booker in July 1980, according to the case background. [During his decades-long career in law enforcement, Ingle also worked for the Alamance County sheriff's office and as an officer with Elon's municipal police department, prior to his elevation to Elon's police chief.] Jerry D. Garner, then a detective with the police department, is listed in the case background as the other officer who interrogated Booker in July 1980.
Both Ingle and Garner testified at the trial in Alamance County that Booker had initially denied any involvement in the murder and robbery at the car wash, but when Ingle asked to see his wallet, Booker gave it to him, saying "The money is in the billfold." The then-detective Ingle found $58 in Booker's wallet, which – in the context of Booker's statement about where "the money" was – was deemed incriminating, according to the case background. During the interrogation, Garner took a phone call from the State Bureau of Investigation, and repeated aloud the results from a ballistics test that confirmed that shell casings found at the scene of the crime had been fired from an automatic pistol later recovered from Booker's mother's home. Booker began to cry as he overheard Garner's conversation with the SBI and confessed shortly thereafter. "At no time did [Booker] request a break in his statement" and neither investigator "directed or suggested" that he answer in any particular way, the case background states.
The case ultimately wound its way to the state Supreme Court – twice – with Booker insisting his confession had been coerced, according to factual background cited in both rulings by the N.C. Supreme Court.
In July 1982, the state Supreme Court remanded his case to Alamance County for a new hearing and entry of findings of fact to support the conclusion that Booker had confessed voluntarily.
The "voluntariness" of his confession was upheld during a subsequent hearing in Alamance County in August 1982, according to the case background.
On remand, a visiting superior court judge from Harnett County, Wiley F. Bowen, found that Booker had been interrogated by "only two officers" (Ingle and Garner); that he asked and was allowed to use the phone; availed himself of the restroom at the Burlington police department headquarters; refused the investigators' offers of food and drink; at no time asked for the interrogation to stop or to request to speak with an attorney; and was not physically or verbally abused, according to the case background.
In September 1983, N.C. Supreme Court again ruled that Booker had not been coerced into confessing. Nor had he been subjected to an "unduly lengthy" interrogation, according to the 1983 ruling by the state Supreme Court.
Rather, the state's highest court found that, based on the evidence presented and a review of the trial in Alamance County, Booker's confession had been made "freely and voluntarily and was admissible against him," the case background states.
Booker is currently incarcerated at Southern Correctional Institution, a close-custody prison for men located about 72 miles south of Burlington in Troy. The N.C. Parole Commission did not give the date that Booker is scheduled for release.
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come with a tower bridge building replica.
can parted into sections for easy transport and storage.
the building has details like iconic paired towers, a raisable drawbrigde, arches and windows.
also included a black london taxi, a yellow truck, green automobile and a red double decker bus.
must have for tower bridge and architecture lovers.


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Опдаль () — имя собственное; распространено в виде фамилий.
 Опдаль, Нильс (1882—1951) — норвежский гимнаст, чемпион летних Олимпийских игр 1912 года
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It's the dog days of summer here in St. Petersburg. That means that you're so tired of the heat that you want to scream, but its too hot. After living in cool and rainy Seattle for quite a while, I needed to find a local brewery for enjoying craft beer. It needed to make my favorite type of beers and also be a place to celebrate special occasions. It was also important to provide a comfortable environment for discussing the mysteries that my friends and I agree to investigate.
So, off I went to choose a local brewery by basically visiting every craft beer establishment in downtown St. Petersburg along Central Avenue. There are a lot of them. Most were a bit clinical – set up for serious beer tasting with no food and the most basic of furnishings. One was in the right location, but the indoor space was cramped and seating was limited to high table tops which my office manager Amanda finds uncomfortable. Some were not family friendly which teenager Jacob and his service dog Suzy would find uncomfortable.
Another brewery didn't have any beers that I liked – I know – hard to believe, but true. It was also very noisy so I couldn't envision holding a discussion of the murder investigation if I need to yell to be heard.
A highly recommended pub was near the right place, but it was too small and any conversation that me and the posse might have would be overheard and possibly interrupted by a nearby patron.
So, just like finding your keys, the last place I looked was perfect. It's named 3 Daughters Brewing and I found a beer that I adore. The draft beer is called Beach Blonde Ale – delicious. They have a tasting room in the front and invite food trucks for snacks and meals. They always have two or three new beers to try. The bartenders are experts in beer types and can guide you to a delicious pint with just one or two samples.
The most important aspect of 3 Daughters Brewing is that when you walk in, they make you feel like a regular.
You can visit Cheryl at her Website, on Facebook or on Twitter.
I really enjoyed the first two books in this series. This third book is on my tbr list.
Thanks for stopping by, Annette.
There's a new pizza place on Central Avenue that serves fresh thin crust pizza in a clay oven. It's on our list. Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks, I'm very lucky to have great covers for all three in the series.
Thanks for stopping by, Judy.
I was fortunate to receive an ARC to read and review and I loved it! Thanks for a great whodunit Cheryl!
Diane, so glad you enjoyed CRACKED TO DEATH. The next one up is ETCHED IN TEARS -- no publication date yet, but definitely next year.
Hi Cheryl. I enjoyed the first two books, and am looking forward to reading Cracked to Death.


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Irish Hospitality in the Heart of Westwood
By Mike Fitzsimmons, Taste of Westwood
There's nothing like some good ol' Irish hospitality to make you feel at home. P.J. Finnegan's has been making their customers feel at home since the 1980's when the restaurant was first opened by Pat Finnegan. The current owner, Luke Farrelly took over the establishment 15 years ago. We spoke with Luke about what makes this place so special.
TOW (Taste of Westwood): Luke, you're originally from Dublin, where I believe they have a few pubs that serve Guinness. What did you change at Finnegan's when you took over the reins?
Luke: Not a thing. If I had wanted to change everything I would have started new. I liked the atmosphere just the way it was; it seemed authentic and I have tried to improve it in small ways.
TOW: You must be doing something right, you have been voted best Irish pub and best pub grub by Bergen Magazine and 201 for the past 10 years. What sets you apart?
Luke: Aside from the atmosphere and decor, which has been assembled and curated by Bill Blanchard from day one, it is also the staff and the relationship they have with the customers. And of course, it is attention to details and consistency.
TOW: Like how you pull a Guinness? It is amazing how that beer can go from great to horrible depending on the pub.
Luke: Exactly. We have six taps and all are pushed on a nitro mix. I think it adds smoothness to our Belgian beer, Palm and everything must be running right to pour a great Guinness. I'm a bit of a fanatic about that.
TOW: What is the secret to your menu? Am I right in calling it American comfort food?
Luke: Yes, although we will have occasional Irish fare like bangers, our menu is the result of our chef of the past 35 years, Peter Bacile. He is a Culinary Institute graduate. His dishes have become standards here, like the sliced steak and Guinness fish and chips.
TOW: You have been a big supporter of Taste of Westwood from the beginning, and your family has been involved.
Luke: Yes, my daughters, Denise and Nicole have helped every year. We enjoy seeing the familiar faces but always see new ones. We try to showcase something different each year that gives Peter a chance to be creative and expand our menu. We also enjoy giving back to the Library and community through this event.
TOW: How is a pub like yours more than just the sum of its beers and food?
Luke: Free houses or Public Houses (Pubs) have always been a part of the villages and towns in the UK and Ireland, part of the social fabric that holds it all together through generations. Before there was social media or social networks, there were places you could gather to share a pint, a story and a meal with neighbors or strangers. We encourage leaving the technology of today behind for an hour or two and relaxing the way our parents and grandparents did.
Purchase your Taste of Westwood tickets today and get a taste of P.J. Finnegan's.


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Q: Group SMS from android app? I need to implement group messaging (text SMS) in my app.
Is it possible to send group SMS from android app?
I want to fetch more than one contact numbers from device contact list and send some text to  each of them. That message should go to their inboxes as common messaging.

A: You can use the SmsManager's sendXXX methods to send messages. However, those allow only one addressee at a time. E.g.:
sendTextMessage(String destinationAddress, String scAddress, String text, PendingIntent sentIntent, PendingIntent deliveryIntent)

The destinationAddress can be only a single phone number, no tricking with commas or similar will work.
So you need to send a single message for all of the destinations one-by-one.
For working with contacts, there exists a lot of tutorials. Here is the official one: http://developer.android.com/training/contacts-provider/index.html


"Not just our region, but if you look at the top 6-8 teams that could win this whole thing, below them they tried as best they could to cover geography but also cover the S-curve," Mulkey said. "Usually when you look at a bracket, you go, 'Who got the toughest region?' I don't know that anybody got one any tougher than any others."
"I think that us getting in was a fluke in their eyes, and then when we went out and went to the Sweet 16, they said, 'We've got to take these people seriously'," Buffalo coach Felicia Leggett-Jack said, referring to last year's MAC run.


While we were working on our project (the kindergarten schools) in Khong District, we went on a tour of the local hospital in Muong Khong (following a request from two goodhearted nurses we met from Switzerland--Marie Claire and Evelyn). We met with the chief of office public health, Dr. Soubanh Kangnavong and he showed us around and explained the challenges the hospital is facing. While we are unable to take on this project, we are hoping that other organizations, such as international hospitals, will consider getting involved. Even if you can only mail some old surgical instruments, that would make a big difference in a place like this.
The hospital serves a community of approximately 50,000. It has 7 doctors and 4 nurses, who were educated in Vientiane, Laos and also in Vietnam and Bangkok. The hospital does approximately 4-5 operations per month, which have an infection rate of 10% (which he says is low for the area). They act as a pharmacy for the area, ordering in antibiotics and other drugs from Vientiane. Patients must pay for the cost of all drugs or medical items used, but the hospital and doctors provide their time for free (paid by the government).
The most common problems for adults are appendicitis, cesarean sections and gall bladder infections. However they also see TB and malaria patients, and a large number of people with diabetes and parasites.
The most common problems for children are lung infections, stomach problems (diarrhea) and parasites.
The equipment at the hospital is extremely old and in very bad condition. They have very little resources. Lives in the area could be saved if you or someone you know could send some second-hand medical equipment.
Sterilizer (their sterilizer is broken and they are currently using steam a firewood stove).
Blood separator (theirs is 40 years old and broken. Right now they have no separator).
X-ray machine is broken, so they are unable to diagnose broken bones.
Surgery instruments (they are in dire need of instruments and would be happy to receive old second-hand instruments).
Anything else you can think of...as they have almost nothing at this hospital.
If you can help in any way it will be of great benefit to this poor community, and will save lives. If you are able, you are welcome to visit the hospital yourself. Unfortunately, we are not able to oversee this project ourselves due to extremely limited resources, but if you would like to get involved you can contact the hospital directly. We will be happy to help with language barriers if we can and whatever else we are able to help with--for example, if the equipment is complex and needs to be properly explained, we can have the documents translated in Lao. Just drop us a line.
Top to bottom: broken sterlizer, current needle holders, broken 40 year old blood separator.


Think of the work of Claude Monet and water lilies come to mind, so do reflections in rippling rivers, and sparkling seas — but not buildings. He was scarcely a topographical artist — an impressionist Canaletto, even if Venice was among his themes. Nonetheless, Monet & Architecture at the National Gallery is an intriguing experience.
Before I saw it, the suspicion crossed my mind that this was the solution to a conundrum that must puzzle many galleries. Namely, how to put together another Monet exhibition without it being the same as all the others? An institution such as the National Gallery could not just borrow a lorry-load of Monets and shove them up on the walls — although quite a lot of visitors might be happy enough with that.
Exhibitions are supposed to have a serious point, to explore novel territory. A little unexpectedly, Monet & Architecture succeeds in doing just that. Not only does it contain an array of masterpieces but it also makes you think harder about just what the subject of these pictures really is. Paradoxically, the answer turns out to be that it isn't architecture.
Although the exhibition is vaguely chronological, this is not a retrospective. Large sections of the painter's oeuvre are omitted because they depict no man-made edifices. Thus the pictures he did at Étretat in the early 1880s are left out, but there are several of the quite similar ones Monet painted not far along the Norman coast at Varengeville. The reason is that the latter often feature the medieval church and a humble shelter for the local customs officer.
Mind you, those structures were not exactly the subjects of these pictures. A reviewer at the time got it right when he wrote that Monet had put the douanier's little cottage with its red roof in the corner of one picture 'to put the rest in tune' ('pour donner le la'). That is often the role of architecture in Monet's pictures. It adds a contrast or backdrop.
In a wonderful painting, The Church at Varengeville, Morning Effect (1882), the geometric clarity of the steeple and Gothic walls and windows contrasts with the rugged chaos of the rock face below. The painter noted his true interest in his title: the slanting sunlight of early morning which catches outcrops of stone, while leaving other parts of the cliff in misty violet shadow.
The moisture in the air of northern Europe and its mutable maritime climate were essential to Monet's art. Almost all his finest pictures were produced in his native Normandy, most of them at points along the railway line from Gare Saint-Lazare along the valley of the Seine to the sea. His pictures of Mediterranean scenes — at Antibes and Bordighera in Liguria look brash by comparison.
Monet was clear about his intentions, though his recorded remarks were often terse. He explained his urge to paint the national celebrations of 30 June 1878 in the rue Montorgueil, by saying: 'I love flags a lot.' Of course he would. Flags are mobile notes of colour in the air. Again his preoccupation is not the street. It's the euphoric, fluttering movement of people and coloured cloth framed by the grey Parisian house fronts.
In the excellent accompanying book the curator Richard Thompson quotes Monet as complaining that 'everything changes, even stone'. Thompson considers this a 'cryptic remark' — but you could also read it as a four-word manifesto. The constant flux of the 'enveloppe' of light and moist air surrounding Rouen Cathedral no doubt made his work torturously difficult. But it was also his deepest theme.
With the series of the Rouen façade, Monet selected what was virtually a postcard view. But the famous arches and niches of the west front weren't really his quarry. If you peer closely at the surface it looks like a 1950s abstraction. In another gnomic aside, Monet confessed he wanted 'to do architecture without doing its features, without the lines'.
This sounds like painting the grin without the cat, but actually it's just what he accomplished. A sequence of five Rouen Cathedral canvases is the climax of the National Gallery show. Standing in front of them is like looking at a movie of fluctuating light and atmosphere from dawn to dusk — but enormously more subtle than any photographic image could ever be. What he was actually painting was evanescence, passing time.
In a way, admittedly, concentrating on Monet and architecture is arbitrary. Haystacks or poplars were just as satisfactory material for him as a medieval cathedral. It was what went on around these solid objects — shimmering sunlight, fog, patches of shade — that really counted. But this itself is a revealing conclusion. The other point the show makes is that — despite his popularity — Monet was a truly great painter. The public are quite right to love him: this exhibition is crammed with marvellous, exhilarating pictures.


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Even in the most Hispanic cities in Kansas, getting elected as a Latina is an uphill battle
High Plains Public Radio | By David Condos
Published November 22, 2021 at 5:16 PM CST
Janeth Vasquez goes door to door during her campaign to become Liberal's first Latina city commissioner.
In a pair of predominantly Hispanic southwest Kansas communities, two women try to become the first Latinas voted into local office. Elections earlier this month show both how far Latina candidates have come and how many barriers they still face.
This is the third of a three-part series that examines issues of racial injustice in an often overlooked place: rural Kansas.
Click here to read the first part about how a history of racist violence continues to impact a town in western Kansas and here to read the second part about discrimination against Black farmers in northwest Kansas.
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LIBERAL, Kansas — Janeth Vasquez's journey is a common story in southwest Kansas.
Her parents immigrated to Kansas from Mexico in the 1980s, seeking a better life for their baby daughter in the growing Hispanic community that rose up around Liberal's meatpacking plant.
But what Vasquez accomplished when she became the first Latina ever elected to office in Kansas' most Hispanic city was anything but common.
"I feel like there's no representation for us," Vasquez said. "Latinos account for the largest portion of our population. … But at the end of the day, the largest demographic of people that have the power in town are not the Hispanics."
Her win signified a landmark accomplishment for all the immigrant families like hers who have come to southwest Kansas over the past few decades. But it also highlights the inequities and barriers that have historically kept the region's representation from looking more like its residents.
Kansas is rapidly becoming more Hispanic. The number of Latino residents statewide has nearly tripled since 2000. Roughly one of every five Kansans is now Latino. But the shift to increasing Hispanic representation in local government hasn't kept pace.
Data from the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials shows that out of 3,804 elected city positions across Kansas, only four officials are Hispanic.
Even in the two most Hispanic cities in the state of Kansas, Liberal and Dodge City, campaigning to become the first Latina woman elected to either city's local office presents an uphill battle.
As Vasquez and Blanca Soto, a candidate for the Dodge City commission, made their final push to reach potential voters the week before the election, they walked door-to-door trying to turn out new voters in working class, primarily Hispanic neighborhoods where most people running for local office don't bother stopping.
"That's what makes it or breaks it," Soto said, walking through the Dodge City neighborhood she grew up in. "You can send mailers. You can do social media. But until you make that connection, I think that's what really makes a difference."
Blanca Soto was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Dodge City commission earlier this year, but lost her bid to get elected for the next term.
But as Soto and Vasquez walked from one house to the next, the layers of challenges facing their campaigns, and others like them, became evident.
Fewer than half of Hispanic Kansans meet the criteria to even register to vote. Many of the people Soto and Vasquez talk with aren't citizens. Some who are citizens haven't registered to vote or don't know how. Even among registered voters, many didn't know about the city election.
Even though Hispanic residents make up roughly two-thirds of each city's population, neither place had ever voted a Latina into local office.
And when the election results rolled in, they served as a reminder that electing a Latina to any office in Kansas, even in its most Hispanic regions, remains exceedingly rare. Soto came up short.
"At the end of the day," Soto said, "we know that it's going to take time to create sustainable change."
Expand the electorate
So why is it such a challenge to get Latina candidates elected, even in predominantly Hispanic cities like Liberal and Dodge?
For one, looking at the population demographics alone doesn't always tell the whole story.
"While that community may be 62% Latino," said Erica Bernal-Martinez, the chief operating officer of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, "it doesn't mean that the electorate is made up of majority Latino voters."
In Kansas, just 43% of Hispanic residents can register to vote, meaning they are U.S. citizens over the age of 18. That's compared with 72% among non-Hispanic white Kansans. And even for Hispanic Kansans who are eligible to become a citizen, it's a process they may not have the time and money to complete. For example, a Pew Research report shows that a majority of Mexican immigrants who would be eligible for citizenship haven't taken that step.
Overall, the share of Kansas voters who are Hispanic more than doubled since 2000, now up to 7%. That's a larger share than Hispanic voters have in neighboring states like Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. But it's still a small fraction compared with the 82% of Kansas voters who are non-Hispanic whites. And nationwide, Hispanic voter turnout has historically lagged behind white voter turnout.
Blanca Soto goes door to door talking with potential voters in Dodge City during her campaign to become the town's first Latina elected to the city commission.
So in order to succeed, Bernal-Martinez said Latino candidates often need to get more votes from a smaller pool of voters who don't often participate in politics.
"They're needing to actually work at expanding the electorate," she said, "bringing in new voters who have never been part of the process, mostly because no one has invited them to participate."
She said when those communities are invited, however, the strategy can work and pay dividends for years to come. But it takes the type of one-on-one conversations that Soto and Vasquez took on in Dodge City and Liberal — answering people's questions one-on-one on their porches, validating people's voices and concerns.
That's a slow process. And an extra burden.
"It's almost like this double job that gets stacked on for them in growing and expanding the electorate," Bernal-Martinez said. "And that takes time. … And it takes a lot of work. And it takes more money."
It also illustrates some of the other barriers that have likely kept Hispanic Kansans from running for office: the time, money and know-how that it takes to mount a campaign.
Like Soto and Vasquez, many are second-generation immigrants from working-class families. And especially for those who are breaking new barriers in their community, they're likely to have few connections to the white power structure that translates to fundraising and exposure.
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Janeth Vasquez, right, hugs her mother, Beatriz Cuellar, on election night after becoming the first Latina elected to Liberal's city commission.
And then there's the backlash Latina candidates themselves risk facing when they throw their hat into the ring.
"On top of all the other challenges — you have to learn the process, you have to learn … all of the rules and the regulations," Janeth Vasquez said, "and then just to top it off … we still have to deal with racism."
During the campaign, she said she regularly got aggressive calls on her cellphone from people accusing her of planning to bring more undocumented immigrants to town. She received similar attacks on social media and saw a prominent community member start false rumors about her.
But not only did she not make immigration issues part of her campaign platform, that's not even the type of issue the city commission oversees.
"I truly believe that a lot of this has been brought up because of my race," she said. "They're trying to intimidate me. And I'm not intimidated."
She found support in a group text thread with Soto, Lenexa's Melanie Arroyo and other Kansas Latinas running their first campaigns where they encouraged each other and shared tips. But Vasquez said she actually encountered more racism in her town — which, again, is roughly two-thirds Hispanic — than other Latina candidates she talked with experienced in eastern Kansas.
And she said the most common advice she got from people in Liberal, even other Latinos, is that she should play down her ethnicity if she wants to win.
"I know there's racism across Kansas," she said, "but I thought here in Liberal we were better than that."
Delia Garcia knows about waging this type of uphill battle too.
She broke a similar barrier herself back in 2004 when she was elected as the first Latina in the Kansas Legislature. Now, she's passing along the lessons she's learned to the next generation of Hispanic leaders as an advisor with the Kansas Latino civic engagement project.
Vasquez and Soto were among the few dozen Hispanic Kansans who completed the group's training sessions over the past few months. Garcia said eight of those attendees ended up running for office this year.
"It's absolutely an exciting turning point," she said. "This moment is a proud Kansas, American, woman, Latino moment, and we don't have to be Latino or Latina to appreciate and be excited about it."
She's seen more interest recently from young Latinas who want to get involved in the political process across the state, and expects the trend to continue in the coming political cycles.
With the state's Hispanic population projected to grow by nearly 300% over the next 45 years, she said electing more leaders who reflect the people they represent sends a powerful message to those communities that they belong here.
"It is not only empowering, but it's necessary," she said. "And if you ask me, it's about dang time."
Janeth Vasquez talks with a potential voter outside of her home in Liberal.
And for Janeth Vasquez, Blanca Soto and other Latinas across Kansas, the work is just beginning.
Soto, who was appointed to the city commission earlier this year to fill the remaining term of Dodge City's resigning mayor, said she will use that short stint of experience to train other Latinas considering a run for local office. She hasn't ruled out running for city commission again in 2023, but she plans to focus on local voter registration efforts over the next year to continue building the base of Latino voters for future elections.
"Hope is the last thing we lose, right?," Soto said. "So I might lose the election, but I'm not going to lose hope."
As she prepares to take office, Vasquez hopes that Hispanic families in town will finally be able to come to the local government to voice questions and concerns — in their native language — which may otherwise go unheard.
And she wants her election to show other young Latinas across Kansas that they can take that step, too.
"Women and women of color deserve a seat at the table where decisions are being made," Vasquez said. "And while I may be the first woman elected to this position, I will not be the last."
David Condos covers western Kansas for High Plains Public Radio and the Kansas News Service. You can follow him on Twitter @davidcondos.
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Greg Echlin
The Kansas City Chiefs, who overcame multiple injuries prior to and during the game against the Cincinnati Bengals, were hosting the AFC Championship for the fifth year in a row. They'll face the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, Feb. 12.
Despite a ballot box loss, anti-abortion lawmakers in Kansas propose a complete ban
Rose Conlon
The call for an outright ban departs from the agenda of Republican leaders in the Legislature and efforts by Kansans for Life.
Kansas Republicans want election rule changes that could give them an edge over Democrats
Kansas Republicans are considering the removal of a three-day grace period for returning ballots by mail and creating runoff elections for statewide races. Democrats and voter turnout advocates say they are voter suppression efforts.
'I'm just so angry': How the state failed to follow its plan to tell Wichitans of toxic groundwater
Celia Hack
The state created a plan in 2003 to keep a predominantly Black neighborhood in Wichita informed about toxic groundwater in their community. It failed to follow through on several key aspects.


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Industry Meeting North American Helium Exploration Conference Find Out More
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Playmaker Video Mary Van Der Loop - Proposed Stratigraphic Correlation Framework, Wolfcamp of Delaware Basin, West Texas Playmaker Video
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Playmaker Video Sarah Rittenhouse, Joanna Fritz - Generation of a Regional 3-D Pore Pressure Model for the Wolfcamp Formation in the Delaware Basin, New Mexico and Texas Playmaker Video
Playmaker Video Susan Nash - Optimization in U.S. Shale Plays: Emerging New Techniques and Technologies Playmaker Video
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Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Technical Interest Group (TIG)
Geomechanics and Hydraulic Fracturing Technical Interest Group (TIG)
Explorer Historical Highlights By Orlando Méndez
One Hundred Years of a Lost Blowout
A century ago, a gusher helped transform Venezuela from an agricultural country known as an exporter of coffee, cacao and cattle into one of the world's largest oil producers. It was front-page news on the world's most important newspapers. The country's most significant 20th-century discoveries took place in the Maracaibo Basin between 1910 and 1925 and were based on surface geological exploration of concessions held by American and European companies. One of the strikes, the large La Rosa Field, was discovered in 1917 by Venezuelan Oil Concessions, a Royal Dutch Shell affiliate, on a 3,000-square-mile concession.
Can Closed-Loop Geothermal Bridge the Transition?
As countries seek to transition to cleaner-burning fuel to address environmental concerns, it can also be argued that the need to eliminate energy poverty remains just as crucial. The future energy mix must be wide-ranging and diverse to meet the needs both of the environment and the people living on the planet. New companies have begun to bring geothermal energy to areas that aren't adjacent to volcanoes or that don't have access to tectonic settings, which allow for an easy harvesting of the Earth's heat. Some are embracing the niche operation of repurposing traditional geothermal wells and non-producing oil and gas wells. Others are promoting widespread geothermal energy through deep vertical and multilateral wells that can bring heat and electricity to the masses.
Explorer Historical Highlights By Tom Chidsey
Utah's Rich Oil and Gas Exploration History
People often associate Utah with spectacular canyons cut into the Colorado Plateau, the state's five national parks, incredible skiing in the beautiful mountains, the opportunity to wade around in the briny water of Great Salt Lake or hearing the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing the "Hallelujah Chorus." Visitors to the state, as well as most of its citizens, don't think of Utah as a major producer of oil and gas. However, Utah has consistently ranked among the highest oil and gas producers in the United States.
Explorer Historical Highlights By Mir-Yusif Mir-Babayev
Oil Rocks: Early Offshore Production from the Caspian City in the Sea
In 1949 an historic oil field was discovered under the Caspian Sea. The field was named "Neft Dashlari, which in Azerbaijani means "Oil Rocks," and it was a milestone in the development of the global oil industry. Oil Rocks, an iconic "city in the sea," pointed the way to modern offshore drilling as we know it today.
Explorer Article By Ken Milam
How to Store Renewable Energy in Depleted Gas Wells
Depleted horizontal oil and gas wells could have a second life storing renewable energy, according to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Because renewable forms of electricity generation like solar and wind require low-cost energy storage, the NREL researchers propose using depleted hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells to store electrical energy in the form of compressed natural gas to be released to spin an expander/generator when electrical demand is high.
Explorer Article By Doug Cook
Perseverance Examines Martian Geology for Signs of Life
NASA's Perseverance rover is currently exploring the delta front of Jezero Crater on Mars. It has traveled 7.4 miles and drilled twelve core samples. For Katie Stack Morgan, geologist and deputy project scientist for the Perseverance Mars rover, the first close-up image of layered rocks at the base of Jezero Crater's ancient river delta grabbed her imagination. "These are the layered rocks that we came for!" she said.
Learn! Blog By Susan Nash
Smart Geosteering Continues to Break New Ground
Geosteering innovations continue to have dramatic breakthroughs in accuracy, efficiency, and real-time monitoring capabilities, thanks to pioneering work in analytics with new algorithms and approaches to machine learning. Welcome to an interview with Hugh Winkler, who will also be presenting at AAPG's U-Pitch New Technology Showcase, at IMAGE.
Explorer Article By Andy Davies,Mike Simmons
The Role of Hydrocarbons in the Energy Transition
Approximately 80 percent of today's global energy supply comes from fossils fuels, 54 percent of which is supplied by oil and gas. Global society's goal for the near future is to enjoy the same or better quality of life, but with zero carbon emitted. This presents a set of challenging questions of particular relevance to AAPG members. How will energy demand evolve? How difficult is it to remove oil and gas from the global energy mix? And if they remain part of the mix, what kind of hydrocarbons are we looking for? How important will geological carbon storage be in assisting efforts to reach net zero? These questions were investigated in a recent paper by the authors entitled, "Demand for 'advantaged' hydrocarbons during the 21st century energy transition," and published in the journal Energy Reports. The results are summarized here.
Tuesday, 28 February 2023, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Basics of CCUS IPTC
This course is for geologists, environmental scientists, and geological regulators, policy makers and investors who are interested in carbon capture and storage. The course will cover: the role of CCS within decarbonisation as an aspect of earth system science; why CCS is necessary; how CO₂ is captured in industrial processes and how it can be used industrially; the factors affecting geological storage; how CO₂ stores are monitored for leakage; how CCS will be regulated; how CCS will pay for itself; and the social licence for CCS. The course will be delivered in simple non-technical language suitable for non-specialists.
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Tuesday, 21 February – Wednesday, 22 February 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
AAPG Orphan, Idle, and Leaking Wells: Best Practices, Data Access, Funding Sources, and Business Opportunities
This workshop will be held Feb 21-22 in Oklahoma City, and will bring together industry practitioners, government and state agencies, nonprofit and academic institutions in a first of its kind event that will spark new ideas, motivate interdisciplinary and multi institutional collaboration and support the establishment of best practices for cleaning up and repurposing wells across the nation.
Monday, 2 October – Tuesday, 3 October 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
AAPG/EAGE New Discoveries in Mature Basins
AAPG and EAGE have teamed up to deliver the upcoming New Discoveries in Mature Basins workshop to be held from 2-3 October 2023 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Save the date! Registration to open soon.
Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Monday, 27 November – Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
5th Edition: Siliciclastic Reservoirs of the Middle East
Mark your calendars and save the date to attend the 5th edition of the AAPG Siliciclastic Reservoirs of the Middle East GTW which will be held for the first time in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia from 27-29 November 2023. We look forward to having you on board for the new edition of these popular series.
3rd Edition: Structural Styles of the Middle East
Exciting announcement for all geoscientists interested in structural styles. The 3rd edition of the AAPG Structural Styles of the Middle East is coming back to Oman from 13-15 November 2023. Come join us to learn all the latest developments on the topic!
Monday, 9 October – Wednesday, 11 October 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
4th Edition: Stratigraphic Traps of the Middle East
Join us for the 4th Edition of: "Stratigraphic Traps of the Middle East" workshop. The workshop will be hosted by AAPG in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia 9-11 October 2023.
Monday, 8 May – Wednesday, 10 May 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Low Resistivity Reservoirs: Path to Explore, Discover and Develop
"Wait! There is a short cut. Turn right from here". That's probably the sound of an electric current bypassing the resistive hydrocarbons, in a maze or network of porous media, when traveling from transmitter to receiver. This workshop will serve the participants need with the up to date advancements in describing and characterizing low resistivity and low contrast pay, and eventually, maximize resources.
Thursday, 2 November – Friday, 3 November 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Recent Activity and Exploration Opportunities in the Guyana-Suriname Basin
Plan now to attend an interactive in-person workshop with industry leaders, government representatives and technical experts working in the Guyana-Suriname Basin.
Wednesday, 8 February – Thursday, 9 February 2023, 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Recent Discoveries, Exploration Opportunities and Sustainable Development Strategies in Caribbean Basins
Join technical experts, industry leaders and government representatives for an interactive in-person workshop highlighting onshore and offshore E&P opportunities, new technologies and sustainable development strategies working in Colombia, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic.
Tuesday, 9 May – Wednesday, 10 May 2023, 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
The Importance of Exploration and Production in the Energy Transition
Plan now to attend an interactive in-person workshop with industry leaders, government representatives and technical experts working to help Brazil maintain its E&P capacity while transitioning to a decarbonized economy.
Bridgetown, Barbados
Wednesday, 1 March – Thursday, 2 March 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Deepwater Sedimentary Systems
This 2-day, in-person course describes the range and variability in deepwater sedimentary systems and equips participants to build predictive models of subsurface geology for more successful exploration and development. A primary goal of this course is to enable subsurface teams to more effectively characterize and rank deepwater/offshore projects on a regional and global scale.
Lviv, Ukraine
Thursday, 21 September – Friday, 22 September 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Basin Evolution and Prospectivity in Flexural and Rift Basins
Join us for a workshop where experts will explore the Carpathian foreland and the Dnieper-Donetsk rift basins with a focus not only on hydrocarbons, but the utilization of geothermal resources, hydrogen exploration and CCUS.
Field Seminar
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Late Jurassic Deep Water Depositional Systems from the Late Jurassic of the Lusitanian Basin
Come along on this 1-day field seminar and tour outcrops in the Serra de Montejunto, just north of Lisbon and on the coast from Porto Novo to Paimogo. Instructors: Ricardo Pereira, PARTEX Oil and Gas & Instituto Dom Luiz Gil Machado, ChronSurveys Lda & Instituto Dom Luiz Fees: To be determined Limit: 20 Participants Includes: Hotel Ground Transportation Snacks and Refreshments Lunch and Dinner Guidebook Departure Time/Location 20 June 2023 8:30am SANA Metropolitan Hotel Note:Transportation to start point is not included in the costs of this trip. Please bring clothing for hot day time temperatures (sun hat/ sun glasses/ sun cream etc.). Participants must wear suitable and comfortable light trekking shoes. Aims To gain or increase an understanding of the tectono-sedimentary processes of continental extension and rifting supported by outcrop observations, with focus on deep-depositional marine systems. Discuss implications for prospective petroleum systems. Promote debate and nourish new insights between attendants. About the Field Trip The Lusitanian Basin records the proximal events of syn- to post rift evolution of the hyper-extended West Iberian Margin, showing some outstanding examples of the combined tectono-stratigraphic depositional systems. Here, the Late Jurassic reveals diverse aspects of mixed marine depositional systems including not only submarine fans and turbidites, but also the build-up of carbonate reefs and shoreface to fluvial clastic sequences. Throughout the field trip the different depositional aspects can be observed in detail to demonstrate how such depositional systems can vary in time and space. Observation of these outcrops allows a better understanding on how deep-water depositional systems can change within a sub-basin and help improving the understanding of reservoir properties.
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Wednesday, 21 June – Thursday, 22 June 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Mixed/Hybrid Systems (Turbidite, MTDs and Contourites) on Continental Margins
This 3-day conference brings together diverse experts working on modern and ancient turbidite, MTDs, contourite and hybrid/mixed systems in order to improve the present-day knowledge, models and predictive power.
Biomass Energy Basics: A Renewable Energy Certificate Course
Biomass Energy Basics is an online course that enables participants to review, analyze, and evaluate opportunities in the rapidly expanding market for biopower and biofuel.
Thursday, 19 August 2010, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.
Challenging the Paradigm 'Missing Section = Normal Fault' and Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration
This presentation will show where there are cases of missing sections, but none of them can be attributed to normal faulting.
Friday, 20 January 2012, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.
Eagle Ford Shale Prospecting with 3D Seismic Data within a Tectonic and Depositional System Framework
The Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas is one of the more exciting shale plays in the United States at the current time.
Geothermal Energy Basics: A Renewable Energy Certificate Course
Geothermal Energy Basics is an online course that enables participants to review, analyze, and evaluate opportunities in the rapidly expanding market for geothermal energy.
Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.
Integrating Disciplines, Data and Workflows in Resource Plays
This esymposium takes a close look at workflows associated with resource plays, and analyzes where integration must occur between disciplines, data, and workflows at all phases of the process.
Thursday, 7 June 2012, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.
New Production in Old Fields: Case Study in the Hunton Dolomite
Unger Field, discovered in1955, has produced 8.6 million barrels of oil from a thinly (several ft) bedded, locally cherty dolomite containing vuggy and intercrystalline porosity.
Webinar By Jean-Jacques Biteau
Thursday, 22 October 2020, 3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Pressures, Seals, and Petroleum Traps
Join us to hear Jean-Jaques Biteau talk about key parameters controlling pressure regimes, trap sealing at the level of both the basin and the prospect, as well as areas of uncertainty. Webinar will be presented on Thursday 22 October at 15:00 SGT (UTC+8) Singapore time zone.
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VG Abstract By Ameed Ghori
Unconventional Petroleum Reservoirs: An Overview
Production from unconventional petroleum reservoirs includes petroleum from shale, coal, tight-sand and oil-sand. These reservoirs contain enormous quantities of oil and natural gas but pose a technology challenge to both geoscientists and engineers to produce economically on a commercial scale. These reservoirs store large volumes and are widely distributed at different stratigraphic levels and basin types, offering long-term potential for energy supply. Most of these reservoirs are low permeability and porosity that need enhancement with hydraulic fracture stimulation to maximize fluid drainage. Production from these reservoirs is increasing with continued advancement in geological characterization techniques and technology for well drilling, logging, and completion with drainage enhancement. Currently, Australia, Argentina, Canada, Egypt, USA, and Venezuela are producing natural gas from low permeability reservoirs: tight-sand, shale, and coal (CBM). Canada, Russia, USA, and Venezuela are producing heavy oil from oilsand. USA is leading the development of techniques for exploring, and technology for exploiting unconventional gas resources, which can help to develop potential gas-bearing shales of Thailand. The main focus is on source-reservoir-seal shale petroleum plays. In these tight rocks petroleum resides in the micro-pores as well as adsorbed on and in the organics. Shale has very low matrix permeability (nano-darcies) and has highly layered formations with differences in vertical and horizontal properties, vertically non-homogeneous and horizontally anisotropic with complicate natural fractures. Understanding the rocks is critical in selecting fluid drainage enhancement mechanisms; rock properties such as where shale is clay or silica rich, clay types and maturation , kerogen type and maturation, permeability, porosity, and saturation. Most of these plays require horizontal development with large numbers of wells that require an understanding of formation structure, setting and reservoir character and its lateral extension. The quality of shale-gas resources depend on thickness of net pay (>100 m), adequate porosity (>2%), high reservoir pressure (ideally overpressure), high thermal maturity (>1.5% Ro), high organic richness (>2% TOC), low in clay (<50%), high in brittle minerals (quartz, carbonates, feldspars), and favourable in-situ stress. During the past decade, unconventional shale and tight-sand gas plays have become an important supply of natural gas in the US, and now in shale oil as well. As a consequence, interest to assess and explore these plays is rapidly spreading worldwide. The high production potential of shale petroleum resources has contributed to a comparably favourable outlook for increased future petroleum supplies globally. Application of 2D and 3D seismic for defining reservoirs and micro seismic for monitoring fracturing, measuring rock properties downhole (borehole imaging) and in laboratory (mineralogy, porosity, permeability), horizontal drilling (downhole GPS), and hydraulic fracture stimulation (cross-linked gel, slick-water, nitrogen or nitrogen foam) is key in improving production from these huge resources with low productivity factors.
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DL Abstract By Alex Simms
Interactions Between Ice Sheets and Relative Sea Levels: Lessons From Antarctica and NW Scotland
Local sea-level changes are not simply a function of global ocean volumes but also the interactions between the solid Earth, the Earth's gravitational field and the loading and unloading of ice sheets. Contrasting behaviors between Antarctica and Scotland highlight how important the geologic structure beneath the former ice sheets is in determining the interactions between ice sheets and relative sea levels.
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VG Abstract By Keith Gerdes
Tethyan Carbonates - Linking Tropical Seas and Crashing Plates to Some of the Largest Oil and Gas Fields in the World
The carbonate sequences that were deposited in the now exhumed Tethyan Ocean influence many aspects of our lives today, either by supplying the energy that warms our homes and the fuel that powers our cars or providing the stunning landscapes for both winter and summer vacations. They also represent some of the most intensely studied rock formations in the world and have provided geoscientists with a fascinating insight into the turbulent nature of 250 Million years of Earth's history. By combining studies from the full range of geoscience disciplines this presentation will trace the development of these carbonate sequences from their initial formation on the margins of large ancient continental masses to their present day locations in and around the Greater Mediterranean and Near East region. The first order control on growth patterns and carbonate platform development by the regional plate-tectonic setting, underlying basin architecture and fluctuations in sea level will be illustrated. The organisms that contribute to sequence development will be revealed to be treasure troves of forensic information. Finally, these rock sequences will be shown to contain all the ingredients necessary to form and retain hydrocarbons and the manner in which major post-depositional tectonic events led to the formation of some of the largest hydrocarbon accumulations in the world will be demonstrated.
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DL Abstract By Jennifer Wilcox
The Role of Carbon Capture in Meeting Net-Zero Carbon Goals
President Biden has laid out a bold and ambitious goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions in the United States by 2050. The pathway to that target includes cutting total greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and eliminating them entirely from the nation's electricity sector by 2035. The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management will play an important role in the transition to net-zero carbon emissions by reducing the environmental impacts of fossil energy production and use – and helping decarbonize other hard-to abate sectors.
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DL Abstract By Tao Sun
Integrated Reservoir Characterization and Modeling with Computational Stratigraphy
As oil and gas exploration and production occur in deeper basins and more complex geologic settings, accurate characterization and modeling of reservoirs to improve estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) prediction, optimize well placement and maximize recovery become paramount. Existing technologies for reservoir characterization and modeling have proven inadequate for delivering detailed 3D predictions of reservoir architecture, connectivity and rock quality at scales that impact subsurface flow patterns and reservoir performance. Because of the gap between the geophysical and geologic data available (seismic, well logs, cores) and the data needed to model rock heterogeneities at the reservoir scale, constraints from external analog systems are needed. Existing stratigraphic concepts and deposition models are mostly empirical and seldom provide quantitative constraints on fine-scale reservoir heterogeneity. Current reservoir modeling tools are challenged to accurately replicate complex, nonstationary, rock heterogeneity patterns that control connectivity, such as shale layers that serve as flow baffles and barriers.
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How Orogens Could Collapse Forming Sedimentary Basins: The Case of the Betic-Rif Orogen
The Betic hinterland, in the westernmost Mediterranean, constitutes a unique example of a stack of metamorphic units. Using a three-dimensional model for the crustal structure of the Betics-Rif area this talk will address the role of crustal flow simultaneously to upper-crustal low-angle faulting in the origin and evolution of the topography.